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Charities
How do you work out where to give your money and time? I can’t find any comparisons and analyses of charities online that I trust. I’d have liked to post a link saying, here, want to help? Decide for yourself where your money and time will be most useful. As it is, I can only…
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Review Etiquette
In the Wednesday round up Dear Author includes a mention of the expectations publishers and authors have of reviewers (the link to Mrs Giggles is interesting). Um. I always thought a review was a gift, reader to reader with the occasional grateful author thrown in. When people reviewed my romance novel, Guarded Hearts, I was…
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The Dragon Bride
Short-Story.Me is a new genre short story magazine and its free. Why not subscribe? My fantasy story, “The Dragon Bride”, will be published there in about a month. Be sure, I’ll celebrate with a post when it comes out! But there’s other great stories out now. Have a look.
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The Oxford Book of Short Poems
The Oxford Book of Short Poems has arrived! With great restraint, I waited for the end of the day to dip into it. Found Shelley’s “Waning Moon”. Had my first glimpse of why so many people have liked his poetry. The Waning Moon And like a dying lady, lean and pale,Who totters forth, wrapped in…
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Summer
Sitting on the back lawn, eating watermelon in the evening shade and spitting the pips into the garden.